well, have you checked out the amd64 livecds? yes i know they're based on 2.6, but you can ofcourse easily install a 2.4 kernel. however, my question is, why would you want to? the 2.6 is MUCH better for the amd64 architecture, and the test11 seems imo very stable...afterall, it's supposed to be approved for teh first stable 2.6.0

I am using this patch and have not had any problems...er, at least none that I didn't already have with unpatched kernels._________________The greatest deeds are still undone, the greatest songs are still unsung...

Is there any particular reason you don't want 2.6? There are a lot of driver issues with 2.4 for a64 boards. Last time I booted up the 32-bit system it would see my IDE stuff properly and turned DMA off as a result. It also didn't detect my ethernet card. Once I get a chance to fire up the 32-bit system again I'll be building 2.6 for that as well actually.

Also, to re-itterate whats been said, devfs is disabled in 2.4 (or at least should be) due to some memory corruption issues last time I checked and as devfs is unmaintained I don't think you'll be seeing it fixed any time soon.

Also, I just though about this...don't you have to be running a 64-bit kernel to run 64-bit apps? If you re-merge world using a 32-bit kernel and re-compile gcc as 64-bit, then on subsequent packages won't it then try to execute the 64-bit executable and fail? Methinks you need the 64-bit liveCD for this...not sure though. Besides, with as fast as these things are, why not just start it from scratch?